One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
“I know some first-class Negroes. I also know some second-rate white people.” — Lesley Kagen Copy Share Image
Second-rate minds usually condemn everything beyond their grasp. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. —Judy Garland” — Danielle LaPorte Copy Share Image
A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers. — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's better to read first rate science fiction than second rate science-it's a lot more fun, and no more likely to be… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Set exorbitant standards, and give your people hell when they don't live up to them. There is nothing so demoralizing as a… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
Nothing would please the Kremlin more than to have the people of this country choose a second rate president. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just… — Jack Germond Copy Share Image
The pressure on language to deteriorate does not come merely from below, from the "democratic" lev-elers. It comes also from above, from… — John Simon Copy Share Image
I can think of nothing more soul destroying in life than to persist in trying to do a thing you want desperately… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I once did something right. I played first-rate basketball. I really did. And after you're first-rate at something, no matter what, it… — John Updike Copy Share Image
After 10 years TNA talent still have an inferiority complex. If you don't think that you work for the BEST COMPANY EVER… — Chris Jericho Copy Share Image
There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
He must understand that if he is the world's finest plum and someone he loves does not like plums, he has the… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
If a company is second rate, the logo will eventually be perceived as second rate. It is foolhardy to believe that a… — Paul Rand Copy Share Image
China is the center of the Asian energy security grid, which includes the Central Asian states and Russia. India is also hovering… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is always the sign of the second-rate man when the decision merely meets the present situation. It is the left-over in… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Although most informed balletomanes would place artistry above technique, artistry without a strong technique is a flaccid, bloodless thing indeed, whereas technique… — John Simon Copy Share Image
Latin America can no longer tolerate being a haven for United States liberals who cannot make their point at home, an outlet… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Donald Trump has no design to transform America. Donald Trump doesn't think America is second-rate. Donald Trump doesn't think America's guilty. Donald… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The British Islands are small islands and our people numerically a little people. Their only claim to world importance depends upon their… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
We're worn into grooves by Time-by our habits. In the end, these grooves are going to show whether we've been second rate… — Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr Copy Share Image
“When distinction of any kind, even intellectual distinction, is somehow resented as a betrayal of the American spirit of equal opportunity for… — Harold Edmund Stearns Copy Share Image
“never be a second-rate version of someone else, be a first-rate version of yourself” — Judy Garland Copy Share Image
There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate. — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
Love is like those second-rate hotels where all the luxury is in the lobby. — Paul-Jean Toulet Copy Share Image
First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people. — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer. — Richard Strauss Copy Share Image
